Various countries are shutting down city streets and parks at night. This narrows the life of the city and narrows human rights.

Other cities are promoting walking on the streets.

Germaine Greer had to struggle to be allowed to speak in a UK university. She says that a male-female sex-change operation doesn't produce a real woman, and many condemn her views.

I think Greer is right in a narrow sense, but perhaps wrong at a deeper level.

What is the difference between a typical man and a typical woman? It's actually many miscellaneous differences. Changing one of them in a man won't produce a woman. Changing several of them might result in a close-enough woman.

Not all men are alike, and not all women either. Perhaps the man that wants to be a transsexual starts out woman-like on some of those points.

Many tropical countries are investing heavily in renewable energy.

You Needn't Crave Revenge After Attacks like Those in Paris. I Didn't After 9/11.

What I crave is to defend against the follow-on attack which targets our freedom.

The Dominican Republic arbitrarily deprived of citizenship four generations of people born in that country if they are of Haitian ancestry. Many of them are not Haitian citizens, and if they can get into Haiti it is only because that failed state can't control its borders.